Old Panama City

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1. A SETTLEMENT (ORIGINALLY KNOWN AS CASTILLA DEL ORO) WAS FOUND ON AUGUST 15, 1519 BY PEDRO
ARIAS DÁVILA AND ANOTHER 100 INHABITANTS. AT THE TIME, IT WAS THE FIRST PERMANENT EUROPEAN
SETTLEMENT ON THE PACIFIC OCEAN, REPLACING THE TWO CITIES OF SANTA M ARÍA LA ANTIGÜA DEL
DARIÉN AND ACLA
2. IN 1521, THE SETTLEMENT WAS PROMOTED TO THE STATUS OF CITY BY A ROYAL DECREE AND WAS GIVEN
A COAT OF ARMS BY CHARLES V OF SPAIN, FORMING A NEW CABILDO .
3. FROM 1520 SOME GENOVESE MERCHANTS RULED THE COMMERCE OF OLD PANAMA (PANAMÁ VIEJO) ON
THE PACIFIC OCEAN FOR A CENTURY .
4. BETWEEN 1586 AND 1587 ALREADY THERE WERE 11 ITALIANS IN PANAMA, FOR NATURALIZATION AND THE
RIGHT TO STAY IN PANAMA
5. IN 1539 AND 1563, THE CITY SUFFERED A NUMBER OF FIRES WHICH DESTROYED PARTS OF IT BUT DID NOT
IMPEDE THE CITY 'S DEVELOPMENT .
6. IN 1610, THE CITY REACHED A POPULATION OF 5000, WITH 500 HOUSES AND CONVENTS , CHAPELS, A
HOSPITAL AND THE CATHEDRAL .
7. AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 17TH CENTURY, THE CITY WAS ATTACKED SEVERAL TIMES BY PIRATES AND
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE FROM DARIÉN. ON 2 M AY 1620, AN EARTHQUAKE DAMAGED MANY BUILDINGS IN THE
CITY.
8. IN 1670, THE CITY COUNTED 10,000 INHABITANTS. ON 28 JANUARY 1671, THE WELSH PRIVATEER HENRY
MORGAN ATTACKED THE CITY WITH 1,400 MEN, MARCHING FROM THE CARIBBEAN COAST ACROSS THE
JUNGLE.
9. MORGAN'S FORCE DEFEATED THE CITY'S MILITIA THEN PROCEEDED TO SACK PANAMÁ .
10. HENRY MORGAN WAS ARRESTED BUT , AFTER PROVING HE KNEW NOT OF THE RECENT TREATY , WAS FREED
AND LATER REWARDED .

THE "CASA DE LOS GENOVESES" (HOUSE OF GENOANS) IN PANAMA VIEJO

DIORAMA OF PANAMÁ VIEJO

OLD PANAMA CATHEDRAL

location

Ruins of the convent of conception